how to convert date string to date use javascript moment.js

Question

how to convert date string: example: with format "dd M yyyy" => "07 Okt 2020" wont to date "2020-10-07"

Answer 1

We can parse after setting the moment locale to German, this includes a tweak to exclude the period from short month names.

For example:

 // We must set the months up to exlude the trailing period "." so we parse our date correctly. moment.updateLocale('de',{ monthsShort: ['Jan', 'Febr', 'Mrz', 'Apr', 'Mai', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sept', 'Okt', 'Nov', 'Dez'] }); let dateStr = "07 Okt 2020"; let dt = moment(dateStr, "DD MMM YYYY", "de"); console.log("Date formatted as YYYY-MM-DD:", dt.format("YYYY-MM-DD"));

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